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The U.N.'s chief weapons inspectors begin a new round of talks in Iraq, while President Bush reasserts that with or without U.N. support, the U.S. will "take whatever action is necessary" to "disarm the Iraqi regime." U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan urges no "unilateral action" on Iraq. NPR's Anne Garrells reports.

The United Nations commission investigating the killing of Lebanon's former prime minister, Rafik Hariri, asks to interview Syria's president and foreign minister. The U.N. commission would also like to talk to a former Syrian vice-president.

U.N. envoy Lakhdar Brahimi says the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council should be disbanded in favor of a caretaker government that would receive sovereignty from the U.S.-led occupying forces on June 30. Brahimi's plan also calls for Iraqi elections to be held by the end of January 2004. Hear NPR's Robert Siegel and NPR's Anne Garrels.

France, Russia, Germany and China call for major revisions to the draft resolution on the future of Iraq currently before the U.N. Security Council. The nations want the resolution to include a clear timetable for withdrawing international troops from Iraq and to give the Iraqi interim government total control over security. Hear NPR's Steve Inskeep and NPR's Vicky O'Hara.

The United Nations says it deplores North Korea's decision over the weekend to remove U.N. surveillance cameras and other monitoring equipment from its nuclear facilities. The equipment was installed in 1994 to ensure North Korea would not use its large stockpile of plutonium to produce nuclear weapons. NPR's Eric Weiner reports.

A car bombing outside the Baghdad hotel that houses the United Nations kills the driver and an Iraqi policeman. The attack is near the location of last month's bombing of U.N. offices that killed more than 20 people. The incident follows a weekend of violence in Iraq that left at least three U.S. soldiers dead and a leading member of the country's governing council seriously wounded. Hear NPR's Guy Raz.

"This month, we will reach the deepest deficit of the decade," the Secretary-General warned. If countries don't pay soon, the U.N. will struggle to pay staff and hold meetings, and will limit travel.

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Bethany Kozma leads a key global health office at the Department of Health and Human Services. In past experience in the public eye, she's campaigned against abortion and gender-affirming care.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson chaired a United Nations Security Council session Friday on the threat posed by North Korea. He urged council members to pressure North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons program.